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Jack Luzzatto
Jack Luzzatto

New York Times, Wednesday, October 8, 1975

Author:
Jack Luzzatto
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.74, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 60.3
Jack Luzzatto has 293 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,552
Across
1
No. 1 Alp : BLANC
6
Greeters of day : ARISERS
13
TV daytime offering : SOAPER
14
Famed Biblical city : NINEVEH
15
Early movie fun : SLAPSTICKCOMEDY
17
By itself : PERSE
18
Bulrush : TULE
19
Roadhouses : INNS
20
Put on cargo : LADE
21
Abandon : DESERT
23
Barfly : SOT
24
Common contraction : IVE
25
Target game : DARTS
26
Harsh treatment : ABUSE
28
Glasses for displaying plants : TERRARIA
30
Uncertain feeler : GROPER
31
Abash : EMBARRASS
33
French auto race city : LEMANS
36
Sudden collapses : DEBACLES
40
"___ to sow ... " : ATIME
41
Entrancement : SPELL
42
Germs of life : OVA
43
Author Anais : NIN
44
Resolve : DECIDE
46
Harbor craft : SCOW
47
Garden plant family : GEUM
49
Very: Fr. : TRES
50
Gambling money : STAKE
51
Less than urbane : UNSOPHISTICATED
54
Ballroom dance : ONESTEP
55
Demosthenes, e.g. : ORATOR
56
Begin again : RESTART
57
Saint at the gate : PETER
Down
1
Lodger and eater : BOARDER
2
Slip : LAPSE
3
Church section : APSE
4
Catch : NET
5
Standards : CRITERIA
6
Takes a walk : ANKLES
7
Food squeezer : RICER
8
Daughter of Harmonia : INO
9
Truck type, for short : SEMI
10
Ties the score : EVENSUP
11
Wino's trademark : REDNOSE
12
Lawyer of a sort : SHYSTER
13
Shakespeare's "___ of care" : SLEAVE
15
Tricky bowling shot : SPLIT
16
Movie missiles : CUSTARDPIES
21
Beauts : DARBS
22
Foot bone : TARSAL
25
Headed for ruin : DAMNED
27
Kind of pear : BOSC
29
Pack of paper : REAM
30
Late movie star : GABLE
32
Organ control knob : REEDSTOP
33
Lassitude : LANGUOR
34
French dramatist : ETIENNE
35
Deficits : MINUSES
37
Tracer : LOCATOR
38
One bringing to mind : EVOKER
39
Cut wood : SAWED
41
Story for shooting : SCRIPT
45
Anesthetic : ETHER
46
Condition : STATE
48
All but a few : MOST
50
Warning to a cat : SCAT
52
School-home group : PTA
53
Bitter feeling : IRE

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3 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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